“Not a nanosecond of time was allowed for the corn to begin to lose its sweetness between stalk and pot.”
[Story contributed by Trip Van Noppen] In 1975, I began working for Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM) and moved into the Ponderosa, the really old farmhouse outside of Lake City that Bill had somehow obtained for general housing needs. Jimmy Dean and Granny Loomis were already there. They needed a caretaker. Bill drafted me to …